Wine region
Campania
Campania is a wine region in Italy, home to 161 wineries, producing red, rose, white wines, known for Aglianico, Fiano, Greco di Tufo.
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Campania's 161 wineries make roughly equal white and red wine; Aglianico is the most common single-grape bottling; wines carry DOC, DOCG, IGP designation.
Characteristic grapes
Campania is best known for Aglianico, Fiano, Greco di Tufo. The most-bottled single-varietal wines here are Aglianico, Fiano, Greco. Campania's signature grapes often go into blends, so single-grape bottlings skew toward other varieties.
Wine styles from Campania
Most common single-grape wines
When Campania wines are made from a single grape (rather than a blend), these are the most common:
Wine profile
Campania is roughly split, making substantial white (52%) and red (43%) wine.
820 distinct Campania wines tracked, spanning the colours and styles below.
- White430 · 52%
- Red354 · 43%
- Rose36 · 4%
Types: Sparkling, Still.
Representative Campania wines
Selected from stable product-to-region relationships for diversity — not a claim that these are the region's best wines.
- Terredora di Paolo — Lacryma Christi
- Poderi Foglia — Concabianco Falanghina
- Sorrentino — Lacryma Christi
- Feudi San Gregorio — Greco di Tufo
- Mastroberardino — Lacryma Christi Rosso
- Tenuta del Meriggio — Irpinia
- Orneta — Falanghina
- Cantina Taburno — Amineo Coda di Volpe
Sub-regions & appellations
Within Campania, these appellationsA legally-defined smaller growing area within a wine region, often with its own grapes and rules. are smaller growing areas, often with their own character:
- Irpinia
- Taurasi
- Fiano di Avellino
- Greco di Tufo
- Beneventano
- Sannio
- Paestum
- Campi Flegrei
- Vesuvio
- Ischia
- Terre del Volturno
- Costa d'Amalfi
Quality designations
Wines here span quality tiers from everyday IGP to the strictly-controlled DOCG — you'll find both accessible and prestige bottles.
- DOCAn Italian controlled-origin designation — sets the region, grapes and rules a wine must follow.
- DOCGItaly's strictest wine quality tier — guarantees origin, permitted grapes and production method, and is government-tested.
- IGPEU Protected Geographical Indication (Indication Géographique Protégée) — a regional wine label, broader than AOP.
- IGTA looser Italian designation for regional wines with more freedom than DOC — often good value.
Italy wine designations
- DOC
- DOC is an Italian traditional term used to designate wine with protected designation of origin (DOP) status.
- DOCG
- DOCG is an Italian traditional term used to designate wine with protected designation of origin (DOP) status.
- IGP
- IGP denotes the EU protected geographical indication scheme for food and wine, linking a product’s quality, reputation or other characteristic to geographical origin.
- IGT
- IGT is the Italian traditional term used to designate wine with protected geographical indication (IGP) status.
- PDO
- PDO is the European Union protected designation of origin category.
Understanding the wine data
- Designation
- The protected-origin or administrative category associated with the wine, interpreted using country-aware rules. The same abbreviation can mean different things in different countries, so we only show the meaning approved for that country.
How this ranking is built
Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
Explore Campania
Ways to browse Campania — each count is the size of that specific collection (a subset of the 820 wines tracked above):
- White Campania (68)
- Red Campania (56)
How to choose a good Campania wine
For everyday drinking, IGP bottles are the accessible choice; for something special, DOCG signals the region's most tightly-controlled, prestige wines.
FAQs
- Which grapes are associated with Campania?
- Campania is represented in the WhatDrink region dataset by Aglianico, Fiano, Greco. Grape coverage reflects the products currently linked to the region and is not a complete legal planting register.
- What do the designation terms on Campania wines mean?
- DOC: DOC is an Italian traditional term used to designate wine with protected designation of origin (DOP) status. DOCG: DOCG is an Italian traditional term used to designate wine with protected designation of origin (DOP) status. IGP: IGP denotes the EU protected geographical indication scheme for food and wine, linking a product’s quality, reputation or other characteristic to geographical origin. IGT: IGT is the Italian traditional term used to designate wine with protected geographical indication (IGP) status. These terms describe geographical or regulatory categories; they do not by themselves guarantee that one producer or bottle is better than another.
- How are wineries and producers selected for Campania?
- Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
- How are representative Campania wines selected?
- Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
- How much wine data does WhatDrink have for Campania?
- The current regional catalogue contains 820 linked wines from 161 linked producers. Counts describe WhatDrink catalogue coverage and may change as source data is refreshed.
Regional data is aggregated from wine directory and product-catalogue sources; grape and style associations reflect characteristic varieties and may vary by producer and vintage.